Xiaopeng Yuan: The Liminality of Capitalist Anxiety
“This set of images playfully break advertising’s conceptual ethos and artifice and instead represent real-world, unorthodox behaviours.”
Category Archives: Photobook
The Heavens are Made of Ash: Ezio D’Agostino’s NEOs
“Asteroid mining might create a new Arcadia here on earth. But it might also bankroll the creation of gilded playgrounds in the sky, leaving behind a planet full of ruins and redundant humans.”
Bildband Berlin: Support Photography Bookshops #3
“I’d been playing drums in a few bands, Th’ Faith Healers and Stereolab among others, and between tours and photo jobs I’d take off on photo projects of my own, often to Berlin. Eventually I got a place in Berlin, because I realised it had a lot of what London was losing, it’s a […]
L’Ascenseur Végétal Interview: Support Photography Book Stores #2
“I know the first photograph that left a significant mark on me, to this day, is George Rodger’s picture of the defeated Nuba wrestler carrying the victor” Claude Lemaire runs L’Ascenseur Végétal in Bordeaux, France and stocks both new and antiquarian photography books. With all of these interviews, what I hope to accomplish is […]
Maria Lax: The Phenomenon of Fire, Regardless Its Truth
“In the case of phenomenon, we often commodify our intentions and collude over a recognized minority of experience based on the slight repetition of the materialization of unnatural form” There is a common element that divides the paper-thin system of belief between what we consider phenomenon and what we consider truth. This is the […]
Micamera Interview: Support Photography Book Stores #1
“We wanted to show ourselves that we could restart from nothing and realize a dream. Photobooks were basically unavailable in Milan…” This is the first post in a series of posts about photography bookshops during the time of quarantine. There are a number of people behind the scenes who work tirelessly to promote photography […]
Light Into Memory: An Interview with Amak Mahmoodian
“The desire to be home and the sorrow of separation creates a new narrative within my images, which is now the narrative of my life, or in light of what is happening globally, narrative of our lives.”
Sarah Walker: Pelči Manor A Guide to Attic Photography
“The historical representations of architectural photography deal in large measure with style and period, but are also concerned with the history that passes through the buildings within the frame”. There are antecedents to every photograph produced in the present day. In the case of architectural photography, there are many ways in which we can […]
Land’s End: Trauma is a Strange Attractor
“We are on occasion reminded on occasion of a great plague pit, its underground presence rewarded with a blue plaque to signify its existence as both a terrible debacle in our local history and yet it tellingly reminds us of the foreboding possibility for futures yet unspoken” Trauma is a strange attractor. Just as […]
Chaos in the Landscape: Nico Krijno’s How to Leave Your Body Behind
“Krijno’s images are threaded through with references to South Africa’s colonial history and its fragile post-apartheid democracy.”
Understanding Guido Guidi: In Veneto and Lunario
“Perhaps it’s that what I think I know about photography is really a simple cancer in which I pretend to understand what it offers by the speed in which I believe its delivery system acts as a conduit for its understanding. Perhaps, I want things to slow down as I get older and […]
Udo Hesse: Tagesvisum Ost-Berlin
“The moat as it were, was governed by armament and barbed wire with an intervening hinterland of desolate stretch impolitely, if realistically referred to as the Death Strip. You can consider the Death Strip as an evaporated moat in which many escapees gave their lives fleeing the reverse castle. The reverse castle in real terms, […]